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Believe i'm here as a journalist, i'll let the democratic party -- >> also, doris, part of this is that whatever the speaker's views are, this is not the battle that mitt romney wants to have. he does not want to get in to this, you know, the democratic plank versus the republican plank, and he certainly is not defending akin. you're the first republican, frankly, i've heard, newt, who said he should stay in the race. the party is very much in a different place than you are. >> no. >> well, they are. they clearly are. >> when a majority of the people of missouri on friday, in the latest poll s...

>> but on the other side of that, speaker gingrich, you were quoted in a book talking on election night, hours after the president's inauguration, laying a foundation with other republicans about how to block the president's agenda. that's not exactly a down payment on bipartisanship in washington. >> this is one of the great myths to the city. the president got the stimulus plan he wanted with no elected official having read it. he got every single dollar. every single power. the president ran through obama care. the largest change in the size of government in modern times. got it done. the r...

To have "saturday night live" decide to pick on clint eastwood or pick on you, i think i give them clint eastwood every night for the rest of the campaign. >> right. although they have this amazing ability to make room for both. tom friedman there's something else that i think a lot of people are taking on about the republicans. whether there was the building of, you know, the myth. factual errors or the myth that somehow president obama failed to achieve change because he simply failed, and it wasn't republicans who stood in the way. and just this morning, there's an interesting set of articl...

That, to tom's point are saying, really? you really think you're going to do that? how? because nothing is going to change in washington. >> yes. but let's talk about a very specific difference. i actually find this critique that romney hasn't put forward any specifics wrong. whether it's "the wall street journal" or someone else. and example, president obama talks about an all of the above energy strategy, and then stands in the way of the pipeline. >> the keystone pipeline. >> the keystone pipeline. romney talks about an all of the above energy policy and lays out crisp specifics. and one of...

Person who talked about bipartisan compromise was chris christie who said we can and we should achieve bipartisan compromise while still adhering to our conservative principles. but no real -- this is what i thought was important. given everything we're talking about, there was no road map for how we get there. because, we've heard about changing the culture in washington from two presidents, both of whom have failed. no road map of actually how you go and do the blocking and tackling of getting there. >> and i'm not sure either candidate knows how to break that bipartisan problem that we have...